Altitude 639 Feet Trail Conditions Short road section followed by bog Difficulty Low Experience 7/10 Est. Time 30 Minutes Distance 1 Mile Starting Location

API key querying for Application Insights retires on 30th September 2026. A read-only PowerShell script to find every key across your Subscriptions before it bites.

Ping tests retire in September 2026. Here's a read-only PowerShell script to export every Availability Test URL from an Azure subscription, ready to paste elsewhere.

The Azure DevOps issuer is deprecated and retires in 2027. Here's a PowerShell script to bulk-convert your WIF service connections to the Entra issuer.

Authenticate across Azure tenants with no secrets using a Managed Identity and a multi-tenant app, and avoid the AADSTS700236 trap that catches everyone.

GPv1 and legacy Blob storage accounts retire 13 Oct 2026. Here's the cost trap in auto-migration to GPv2 and how to migrate on your own terms.

Migrating Azure Front Door between resource groups or subscriptions can be done without downtime, but customer-managed certificates in Azure Key Vault require special attention. This article walks through a safe step-by-step migration process and explains how to avoid common TLS pitfalls.

This post will be a short note for myself in the future and hopefully anybody else that may need to figure out how to request a higher Egress, Ingress, Capacity or IOPS on a Storage Account in Azure. Straight to the content!

Altitude 682 Feet Trail Conditions Well-maintained forest track followed by boggy uphill section Difficulty Low Experience 7/10 Est. Time 2-3 hours Distance 5 Miles Starting Location Ghlinne Bhig Forest Walk Turnoff on B885 History of the Local Area A notable archaeological discovery was made near Loch a' Ghlinne Bhig during the construction of the forestry track in the late 1970s. Workers uncovered a carved wooden bowl preserved in the peat, which was later radiocarbon dated to around 20 AD.

The walk to Beinn na Boineide begins near the Fairy Bridge, a site steeped in Skye folklore associated with the Clan MacLeod. The trail features challenging, mossy terrain, requiring careful navigation. While the climb is gradual, the route presents hidden difficulties, ultimately rewarding hikers with stunning views of the surrounding landscape.

Automatically configure a Log Analytics Daily Cap using PowerShell based on real ingestion usage, then create an Azure Monitor alert rule to notify when the cap is reached. This guide shows how to calculate the correct quota, apply it safely, and follow Microsoft best practices to prevent unexpected Log Analytics costs.

Altitude 872 Feet Trail Conditions Gravel road followed by short boggy area Difficulty Low Experience 7/10 Est. Time 3-4 hours Distance 7 Miles Starting Location Ben Aketil Wind Farm Access History of the Local Area There are no widely recorded battles or singular historic landmarks directly on Ben Aketil itself, and the surrounding area is mostly comprised of Shieling Huts and Cairns.

I came across a great reminder from Andy Ballard that’s worth calling out because it’s one of those things that’s easy to miss but has serious security impact. If you’re relying on Conditional Access policies scoped to admin roles, new roles added to Entra are not automatically included. That means you could already have privileged roles in your tenant today that are…

This article walks through how to safely perform backups to an offsite location outside of Azure while ensuring that your encryption key is properly managed.

Cleaning up Azure tag sprawl doesn’t need to be disruptive. This post walks through a practical PowerShell script that safely renames an existing tag across subscriptions while preserving values. Designed for real-world Azure environments, it focuses on resource groups and resources

Perched above the historic Waternish Peninsula, the Ben Geary trig point offers sweeping views over Clan MacLeod territory. Our route follows modern utility tracks, but steps back into the 16th century at the Blacksmith's Hill Memorial Cairn, a powerful reminder of the fierce feuds fought here against the Clan MacDonald.

Microsoft has announced that Classic Ping Web Tests will be retired on 30 September 2026, and environments that haven’t migrated to Standard Web Tests by that date may face not only functional failures but also unexpected cost increases across your estate.

Altitude 1781 Feet Trail Conditions Well-established foot trails Difficulty Medium Experience 10/10 Est. Time 2-4 hours Distance 4-5 Miles Starting Location Quiraing Car Park History of the Local Area The incredible, otherworldly landscape of the Quiraing, which you traverse on this walk, is not the result of ancient glaciers but is the living monument to a more dramatic geological process: the largest landslip in Great Britain.

Altitude 2004 Feet Trail Conditions Road followed by farm track then bog and grass Difficulty Low Experience 9/10 Est. Time 5-6 hours Distance 9-10 Miles Starting Location Uig History of the Local Area Glen Uig, the valley flanking Beinn Edra, offers more than just stunning views; it holds layers of human history etched into its landscape. The glen has been a vital spot for agriculture since the Medieval period, but its story stretches back even further.

The Connect-MgGraph command is the entry point for automating Microsoft Graph API access using PowerShell. Whether you're writing scripts to manage Entra ID, Intune, or Microsoft 365 services, understanding how this command works and how it relates to app registrations is critical. This post will walk through - What Connect-MgGraph actually does How app authentication works When and how to register an app manually…

Resource Groups form the backbone of many companies compliance policies, they're often the target of tagging policies and annual reviews, which means that for each Resource Group you're often increasing the amount of maintenance overhead. That's fine if the Resource Group contains something of value, but what if you're wasting effort on Resource Group that no longer need to be maintained?

Altitude 1601 Feet Trail Conditions Gravel track followed by moorland Difficulty Low Experience 8/10 Est. Time 3-4 hours Distance 5-6 Miles Starting Location Orbost Farm Car Park History of the Local Area Healabhal Bheag which is the southern of the two hills that make up the Macleods Tables, roughly translates as simply Little Healabhal from Gaelic. "Healabhal" potentially has its roots in Old Norse or Gaelic however I can find no definitive source that covers it's meaning.

Easily convert high-resolution images to the modern WebP format directly from your right-click menu in Linux Mint using a custom Nemo Action. In my test, 2 images were reduced from 3.1MB to just 100.2KB, a 96.8% size reduction with no noticeable quality loss. Learn how to set it up in minutes using just a single configuration file.

Altitude 1505 Feet Trail Conditions Forestry track, boggy uphill section, spongy moss Difficulty Low Experience 8/10 Est. Time 2-3 hours Distance 5-6 Miles Starting Location Forestry entrance or Foresty car park before Fairy Pools History of the Local Area The Fairy Pools found to the south east of Beinn na Bhraghad is today an extraordinarily popular tourist destination due to it's often crystal clear pools surrounded by the dramatic Cuillins as a background, however, in 1601 it was the site of a conflict between the Macleods and Macdonalds which has since been referred to as the "Battle of Coire na Creiche" (translates to "The hollow of the spoil" from gaelic), which was so bloody that it's said the Fairy pools ran red with blood.

Effortlessly migrate secrets between Azure Key Vaults across tenants or subscriptions using PowerShell. This guide walks through a robust, script-based solution for cloning secrets with minimal downtime and full reporting. Ideal for DevOps, cloud engineers, and Azure admins.

The Old Man of Storr, a prominent Isle of Skye landmark, features a medium to high difficulty trail of 7-8 miles starting at Storr Car Park. With stunning views, the hike takes 3-5 hours. It's surrounded by folklore and geologically significant formations, attracting over 220,000 visitors annually.

Create a global keyboard shortcut to control YouTube Music and other music apps on Linux using playerctl. This step-by-step guide shows you how to install and configure everything in just minutes.

The walk to the Trig Point starts at the forestry access on Moll Road, following a steep, boggy hill track. Covering 2-3 miles in 1-2 hours, the trail ascends to Meall a' Mhaoil, offering stunning views of Scalpay and the Cuillins. Difficulty is low, with a moderate experience level of 6/10.

Azure App Configuration is a powerful service for managing application settings and feature flags centrally, however, I found that the export options were somewhat lacking for my use-case, which was deprecating an old App Configuration resource where I needed ideally a csv file so I could run comparisons against another system. In this post, we’ll walk through a PowerShell script that extracts App Configuration key-values and exports them to a CSV.

Altitude 354 Feet Trail Conditions Road followed by short grass uphill section Difficulty Low Experience 10/10 Est. Time 30 minutes Distance 1 Mile Starting Location Brothers Point Carpark History of the Local Area According to local tradition, the graveyard known as Kilena was once the site of a large chapel, though no trace of the building remains today unfortunately. While the chapel itself is a mystery, the surrounding area is rich in history and archaeology.

Confused about Azure VM costs when you shut them down? Learn why deallocating VMs, not just stopping them, is crucial to avoid unnecessary compute charges. This guide explains the difference, shows how to deallocate with Azure CLI and PowerShell, and highlights common pitfalls.

Edinbane, established by Kenneth MacLeod, boasts a rich history tied to settlement since before 1600. The area features a 4-mile low-difficulty walking trail starting at Upper Edinbane, offering scenic views including wind turbines and the Cuillin mountains. Notable historical sites include a restored hospital now serving as holiday accommodations.

You know that feeling when you find out a critical Azure service you're using is being retired next week, and nobody told you? Yeah, let's not do that again. Look no further than the Azure Services Retirement Workbook, a small but mighty tool that every cloud admin and architect should be familiar with.

With ever more deprecation on the horizon, it's important to be able to easily identify Function Apps which may now be running deprecated language versions. This ensures you continue to receive support and security updates, avoid performance degradation and unexpected failures and remain in compliance with Azure's best practice guidelines. This article and the code are based on an excellent recent post from…

Altitude 1354 Feet Trail Conditions Well-established foot trails Difficulty Low Experience 10/10 Est. Time 2-4 hours Distance 4-5 Miles Starting Location Tianavaig Bay Car Park - Camustianavaig History of the Local Area Camustianavaig is a small crofting township located at the start of this walk. Its original name, "Camas Dionabhaig," derives from both Gaelic and Norse roots. In Gaelic, "Camas" means "bay," while the Norse "dyn" translates to "noisy."

Altitude 1030 Feet Trail Conditions Farm Road followed by uphill bog, before grass fields and white sands Difficulty Low Experience 9/10 Est. Time 3-4 hours Distance 5 Miles Starting Location Claigan Coral Beach Car Park History of the Local Area Beinn Bhreac, the mountain where the Trig Point is situated, is a common name across Scotland. The name translates to "Speckled Mountain" in Gaelic, reflecting a tendency for places like this to have descriptive rather than unique names.

As Azure evolves, so does its pricing models, often leaving legacy pricing plans in place for existing customers. While these older plans may still function, they can result in unnecessary costs and limit access to newer, more powerful compute resources. Many organizations continue running their Azure Web Apps on outdated Standard (S1, S2, S3) or Premium v2 (P1v2, P2v2, P3v2) plans without realizing the potential savings and performance boosts that can come from upgrading.

This walk actually took place near the end of last year. This time I found myself climbing Suidh' a' Mhinn "Seat of the Gentle" near Kilmuir on one of the last sunny days of the year.

In this article I'll cover configuring Azure DNS and a local service running on a Linux server to update the DNS record automatically.

Altitude954 FeetTrail ConditionsForestry road followed by intermittent bogs and sheep trailsDifficultyLowExperience8/10Est. Time2-3 hoursDistance3 MilesStarting LocationVarragill River Lay-By on th…

Managing system access is crucial for maintaining security and compliance in any organization. In this post, we explore best practices for reviewing system access, identifying unnecessary permissio…

Managing system access is crucial for maintaining security and compliance in any organization. In this post, we explore best practices for reviewing system access, identifying unnecessary permissions, and strengthening your security posture. Learn how to streamline user roles, audit access logs, and implement automated reviews to protect your infrastructure effectively.

I've recently been tidying up some of my personal project code repositories in Azure DevOps, treating them like professional environments where possible to get myself into some better habits. Part of this is ensuring that old branches are properly cleaned up and removed where no longer required. But I kept receiving an error when trying to delete a branch that stated "

With Microsoft recommending that any new projects migrate from the old appinsights Node.JS module to @azure/monitor-opentelemetry I figured I’d bite the bullet and upgrade one of my own proje…

This workbook leverages Azure Resource Graph and provides real-time insights into orphaned assets, empowering you to slash costs, improve governance, and enhance operational efficiency—all from a c…